MECON HOMEPAGE
GEOLOGY/EXPLORATION DEPARTMENT
WATER DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
GEOCHEMISTRY AND QAULITY CONTROL DEPARTMENT
PHOTOS OF EVENTS


WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

The scope of activities in this department involve:

- Groundwater Resources Investigation
- Borehole Drilling and Development. Rural, Urban, Private, Industrial and Institutional Water Supply Schemes
- Water Storage and Distribution
- Regional Water Surveys including Groundwater Basin Studies.

MECON Geology and Engineering Services Ltd. is equipped to carry out regional water resources development studies. The company undertakes river basin studies and management. The surface and groundwater development projects carried out by the company include, Regional Hydrogeological Studies of the Chad Basin and Lafia area of Plateau states, Hadejia Yobe Basin, Nigerian Coastal Basins, Anambra Basin and parts of the Benue Basin to mention a few.


Underground water development

MECON Services Ltd, in association with Basil and Associates between 1978 – 79 also carried out pre-drilling hydrogeological studies of Area XVI (Benue Valley) and prepared the National Master Plan for Groundwater Resources Development for the Federal Ministry of Water Resources.

Amongst companies and industries who have benefited from our expertise in water resources development include Ashaka Cement Works, Ashaka Gombe State, Nigeria Mining Corporation (NMC) Brick Factory Enugu, NMC Management Estate Jos, Benue Cement Company Gboko, the National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMC) Okene, Water and Dams Services Ltd. and Rotary Club International.

MECON has also undertaken construction of village water scheme, at Forum Plateau State for Rotary Club International and drilled many other water boreholes for villages and private individuals.


Iinstallation of hand pump by MECON


A MECON-drilled artesian brine borehole in Awe, Nassarawa State

 

MECON Services has also completed for AshakaCem Plc the design and supervision of an Infiltration Gallery on the River Gongola with a capacity water production of over 100 lits/sec.


MECON also carried out shallow Aquifer Studies for Irrigation purposes under the World Bank sponsored Fadama Programme of the Agricultural Development Projects for at least six states in the country – Anambra, Imo, Enugu, FCT, Adamawa and old Abia states.


Water borehole pumping test by MECON

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